I did not finish: Middlemarch by George Eliot. I got a bit over 200 pages in, and while I did really enjoy a lot of it, the whole thing is just too floridly Victorian for me at the moment 📚.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
—Albert Einstein
Each time you write a page, you are a writer. Each time you practice the violin, you are a musician. Each time you start a workout, you are an athlete. Each time you encourage your employees, you are a leader.
—Atomic Habits
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.
—David McCullough
We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.
—Warren Zevon
TIL the From HTTP request header. Now used for crawlers, it was originally intended for allow human users to supply their email address to the server. Innocent times.
Finished reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong, in one day 📚. ETags, anyone?
Checked the micro.blog logs, and the cert “expired” at 10:06 a.m. (EST), so the site was down for almost 2 hours. Previously.
Site was down for a few minutes (that I know of) due to an expired cert error. I checked the server and my cert was not expired. I rebooted nginx and it’s working again. 🤷
Started reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong. Published in 2000, it’s still a good refresher, although distressingly it omits status code 418 📚.
The Alamo 100
Alamo Drafthouse put out a list of 100 movies they’d want on a desert island back in 2020. Sourced from all their creative directors across the country.
I thought it was an interesting place to …
Read moreI watched Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles last night. It’s so aggressively naturalistic, I had to sink in, but I found paying attention throughout well worth it. 🍿
Watched David Cronenberg’s The Brood from 1979. I wanted to like it more. Someday.
Started reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot 📚.
Finished reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats. What a precisely rendered master crafted gut punch. Loved it.
Started reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats. 📚
Finished reading: The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. I liked the insights into managing software, and the time traveling to the computing industry circa 1975–1995. Took me 1 month and 6 days.
I found Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach thrifting in Providence. First time I’ve heard it, and can recommend to all the #synthnerds #music.
To celebrate adding images to my blog’s micro posts, here’s a #photo of Wiz on a rug.
Started Adam Wade’s storytelling class this past weekend and really loving it. He’s a raw, compelling, caring guy, and I’m really inspired by my classmates.
Back in the saddle writing my music comedy about The Traveling Wilburys Solving Crime novella. At the moment, it’s all about getting the first two chapters right. #amWriting
“Read” the short story The Simplest Equation by Nicky Drayden, via Levar Burton Reads. Really beautiful. 📚
Tired: using the 😂 emoji to advertise a #comedy show. Wired: using the 🍆 emoji to advertise a vegetable show.
“Read” River’s Giving by Heather Shaw, Tim Pratt, and River Shaw over on LeVar Burton Reads. Cute, all ages holiday fantasy story.
Video game testers approve the first union at Microsoft. I’ve long been out of the video game industry, but from my brief experience a union was sorely needed. Congratulations to the team! More like this.